Super-Typhoon Into Philippines
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Environment
- Published
22nd Apr, 2021
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Context
A Super- typhoon Surigae hit into Philippines and destroyed several homes and cut electricity to tens of thousands of people.
About the Super-typhoon Surigae
- It is the strongest typhoon ever recorded in 2021 in the Pacific Ocean.
- The typhoon-force winds extended outward up to 110 km from the centre of the storm.
- The Typhoon Surigae is locally known as Bising.
- It had a diameter of 500 km and winds reached 195 km per hour.
- These are getting stronger because of global warming.
- The fuel for these storms is warm oceans.
- The higher water temperature than the global average in the western Pacific Ocean is making it fertile ground for mega storms like Surigae.
Super-typhoon
- It is a term utilized by the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center for the typhoons which reaches to a maximum sustained 1-minute surface winds of at least 65 m/s (130 kt, 150 mph).
- This is the equivalent to a strong Saffir-Simpson category 4 or category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic basin or a category 5 severe tropical cyclone in the Australian basin.
- Some similar terms
Major hurricane
- It is a term utilized by the National Hurricane Center for hurricanes.
- It is a hurricane which reaches to a maximum sustained 1-minute surface winds of at least 50 m/s (96 kt, 111 mph).
- This is the equivalent of category 3, 4 and 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Intense hurricane
- It is an unofficial term, but is often used in the scientific literature.
- It is the same as "major hurricane".
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